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| VOL. XLV. WINNSBORO, S. C , WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1888. NO. 18.
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TALMAGE TALKS ON TALENT.
^ XT SHOULD BE USED IN ORDER TO
BE IMPROVED.
The Old Story of the Man Who Intrusted
Mosey to his (jemats and Received
Interest trom Some of Them?Rewards
for the Doll as Well as the Brilliant.
The Eev. Dr. Talmage preached to a
large congregation in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
on Sunday on "Bewards for the
dull as well as the brilliant." He took
for his text, "Unto one he gave five
talents, to another two, and to another
one; to every one according to his several
ability." Matt xxv. 15. He said:
"Many of the parables of Jeeus Christ
were more graphio in the times in which
he lived than they are now, because
eircumstanoes have so much changed.
In olden time, when a man wanted to
wreak a grudge upon his neighbor,
after the farmer had scattered the seed
wheat over the field and was expecting
the harvest, his avenger would go across
the same field with a sack full of the
seed of daznal grass, scattering that seed
all over the field, and of coarse it would
sprout up and spoil the whole crop; and
it was to that Christ referred in parable
when he spoke of the lares being sown
. among the wheat.
"In this land our farms are fenced off,
and the wolves have been driven to the
mountains, and we cannot fully understand
the meaning of the parable in regard
to the shepherd and thd lost sheep.
But the parable from which I speak today
is founded on something we all
TiT?<3prR<ATid- It ir built on monev. and
that means the same in Jerusalem as in
New York. It means the same to the
serf as to the Czar, and to the Chinese
coolie as to the Emperor. Whether it
is made out of bone or brass, or iron or
copper, or gold or silver, it speaks all
languages without a stammer. The
parable of the text runs in this wise: !
The owner of a large estate was about to
leave home, and he had some money
that he wished properly invested, and 1
so he called together his servants and ,
said:
?*1 am going away now, and I wish .
you would take this money and put it
to the very best possible use, and when
I come baok return to me the interest.'
To one man he gave $9,400, to others he
gave lesser soms of money; to the least 1
be gave $1,880. He left home and was ;
gone for years, and then returned. On ;
his arrival he was anxious to know about
Worldly affiurs, and he called his servants 1
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know/ said he, 'what you have been :
doing with my property since 2 have
been gone.' The roan who had received
the $9.-i00 came up and said: 'I invested
that money, i got good interest for it. !
| I have in other ways rightly employed ;
ft it; and here are $18,800. You see I :
have doubled what yon gave me.' 'That's
^gy ggod,'mid theowner ofthe estetor industry.
I shalf re- ;
Orard you. Well done; well done.'
Br "Other servants came up with smaller
accumulations. After a while I see a
Knan dragging himself along, with his .
Boghead hanging. I know from the way he
Bbomes in that he is a lazy fellow. He ,
Hcomes up to the owner of the estate aua .
Kays: 'Mere are thoee $1,880.' What!' :
Kays the owner of,the property, 'haven't
Hwou made it accumulate anything?' !
nothing?nothing.' 'Why. what have
B>u been about all these years?' 'Oh, '
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Rwas airaiu mat u ? xuvusbcu it, ? uu^wi
mehow lose it. There are your $1,880.'
any a man started oat "with only a ;
own in his pocket, and achieved a
rtune, bat this fellow of my text with
.,880 has gained not one farthing. In- !
ead of confessing his indolence, he '
les to work to berate his master, for 1
indolence is most always impudent and !
impertinent. Of coarse he loses his
place and is discharged from the service. ;
"The owner who went out into a far ;
country is Jesus Christ, going from .
earth to Heaven. The servants spoken ;
of in the text are members of the Church. (
The talents are our different qualifications
of usefulness given in different .
^Vgroportions to different people. The ]
coming back of the owner is the Lord
Jesus returningat the judgement to final
settlement. The raising of some of the3e j
men to be rulers over five or two cities is
the exaltation of the righteous at the last
day, while the casting out of the idler is 1
the expulsion of all those who have mis- J
improved their privileges. '
"Learn first from this subject, that 1
becoming a Christian is merely going ;
out to serve. If yon have any romatic
^Siflfr^rsMreeoming a Christian, I want 1
now to scatter the romance. If you
enter into the Kingdom of God, it will 1
be going into plain, practical, honsat, 1
continuous, persistent Christian work.
I know there are a great many people 1
who have fantastic and romantic notions 1
about this Christian life, but he who
serves God with all the energies of body, '
mind and roul is a worthy servant; and
he who does not, is an unworthy servant.
When the war trumpet sounds, all the 1
-EifcrcPs soldiers must march, however 1
deep the snow may be, or however fearful
the odds against them. Under our i
Government we may have colonels, and
captains, and generals in time of peace; <
bat in the Church of God there is no
peace until the last great victory shall
hare been achieved. Bnt I have to tell
you, it is a voluntary service. People
are not brought into it an slaves were
dragged from Africa.
"Learn also from this parable that
different qualifications are given to
different people. The teacher lifts a
blackboard, and he draws a diagram, in
order that by that diagram he may im-press
the mind of the pupil with the
has been uttering. And
all the^fcths of this Bible are drawn
vatM a?- in a. crpftr.
VM? U4 I iwmu ?diagram.
Here is a^vacre of ground
that has ten talents. Under a little oulture
it yields twenty bushels oi wheat to
the acre. Here is another piece of
ground that has only one talent. Yon
may plow it, and harrow it, and culture
it, year after year, but it yields a mere
pittance. So here is a man with ten
talents in the way of getting good and
.doing good. He soon, under Christian
.culture, yields great harvests of faith
juad good work. Hare is another man
who seams to have only one talent, and
you may put upon him the greatest
spiritual culture, but he yields but little
-of the fruits of righteousness, You are
to understand that there are different
,/TnaliScalionH for different individuals.
"I learn also from this parable that
the grace of God was intended to be accumulative.
When God plants an acorn,
he means an oak, and when He plants $
small amount of grace in the heart, He
intends it to be growthful and enlarge
until it overshadows the whole nature.
There are parents who, at the birth of
each child, lay aside a certain amount
of money, investing it, expecting by
accumulation and by compound interest,
B??MM? a
that by the time the child shall come to 1
mind-life, this small amount of money
will be a fortune, showing how a small
amount of moneywill roll up into a vast
accumulation. Well, God sets aside a
certain amout of grace for each one of
his spiritual children at his birth, and
it is to go on. and, as by compound in
terest, accumulate until it shall become
an eternal fortune. Can it be possible
that you have been acquainted with the
Lord Jesus for ten, twenty, or thirty
years, and that you do not love Him
more now than you ever did before?
Can it be that you have been cultured in
the Lord's vineyard, and that Christ
finds on you nothing but sour grapes?
"Again, I learn from the text that inferiority
of gifts is no excuse for indolence.
" This man, with the smaller
amount of money, came growling into
the presence of the ownex of the estate,
as much as to say: 'If you had given
me $9,400 I would have brought $18,800
as well as this other man. You gave me
only $1,880, and I hardly thought it was
worth while to use it at all. So I hid it
in a napkin, and it produced no result.
It's because you didn't give me enough.'
But inferiority of faculties is no excuse
for indolence. Let me say to the man
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who iiaa ult) leatst yutuiuuauiuiiB, uy uub
grace of God he may be made almost
omnipotent The merchant, whose cargoes
come ont from every island
of the sea, and who, by one stroke of
the pen, can change the whole face of
American commerce, ha? not so mnch
power as you may have before God, in
earnest, faithful and continuous prayer.
"You say you have no faculty. Bo
you not understand that you might this
afternoon go into your place of prayer
and kneel before God and bring down
upon your soul and the souls of others a
blessing so vast that it would take eternal
ages to compute it? 'Oh,' you say,
'I haven't fleetness of speech; I can't
talk well; I cant utter whst I want to
say." My brother, can you not quote
one passage of Scripture? Then take
that one passage of Scripture; carry it
with you every where; quoto it under
all proper circumstances. With that
one passage of Scripture you may harWAei
A OAtllo rLftyl T om
f vcu a mvurvii iu oviuc avjl v?vu? x oua
glad that the chief work of the Choreh
in this day is being done by the men of
one talent. Onoe in a while when a
great fortress is to be taken God will
bring ont a great fieldpiece and rake all
with the fiery hail of destruction, i
"But the common muskets do most of
the hard fighting. It took only one
Joshua, and the thousands of common
troops under him, to drive down the
walls of the cities, and, under wrathful
strokes, to make nations fly like sparks
from the anvil. It only took one Luther
for Germany, one Zwinglius for Switzerland,
one John Knox for Schotland,
one Calvin for France, and one John
Wesley for England. Dorcas as certainly
has a mission to serve as Paul has a
mission to preach. The two minutes
dropped by the window into the poorbox
will be as mueh applauded as the
endowment of a college, w hich gets a
man's name into the newspapers. The
oian who kindled the fire under the
burnt offering in the ancient temple had
adat^as imperative as, that of the high
^ies^^n~ESgm5cent ~ro& s, walking
Into the Holy of Holies under: the cloud
of Jehovah's presence. Yes, the men
with one talent are to save ths world, or
it will never be saved at all. The men
with five or ten talents are tempted to
toil chiefly for themselves, to build up
their own great name, and work for
their own aggrandizement, and do nothing
for the alleviation of the world's
woes. The oedar of Lebanon standing
on the mountain seems to hand down
the storms out of the heavens to the
earth, but it bears no fruit, while some
Swarf pear tree has more fruit on its
branches than it can cirry. Better to
have one talent and put It to full use
than five hundred wickedly neglected.
' My subject teaches me that there is
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gOUlg IAJ WUIO a U?JT UL avIVLULL fcCLLLWment.
When the old farmer of the lext
got home, he immediately called all the
servants about him and said: 'Here is
the little account I have been keeping.
I want to see your account, and we will
first compare them, and I'll pay you
what i owe you and you'll pay me what
you owe me. Let us have a settlement.'
'fhe day will come when the Lord Jesus
Christ will appear and will say to you:
'What have you been doing with my
property? What have you bean doing
with my faculties? What have you been
doing wi:h what I gave you for accumulative
purposes?' There will be no escape
from tl at settlement.
"Now, in the last great aattlement
there will be a correct account presented.
Gcd has kept a long line of broken
Sabbaths, a long line of profar 9 words,
a long line of discarded sacraments, a
Long line of misimproved privileges.
Ihey will all be added up, and, before
angels and devils and men the aggregate
will be announced. Oh, thar, will be
the great day of settlement. I have to
ask the question: 'Am I ready for it?'
It is of more importance to me vo answer
that question in regard to jon; and it is
of more importance for you to iinswer it
in regard to yourself than in regard to
me. Every man for himself in that day.
Every woman for herself in that day.
If thou ba wise, thou shalt be wise for
thyself; if thou scornest, thou alone
9halt bear it.
<?T loam a Ism fr/vm this na-roV.Ifl a? Hio
text that our degrees of happiness in
heaven will be graduated according to
oar degrees of usefulness on earth.
Several of the commentators agree in
making this parable the same one as in
Luke, where one man was made raler
over five cities and another made ruler
over two cities. Would it be fair and
right that the professed Christian man
who has lived very near the line between
the world and the Church?the man who
has often compromised Mr Christian
character, the man who has never spoken
out for God; the man who has been
known as a Christian only on communion
days; the man whose great struggle
has been to see how much of the world
he could get and yet win heaven?is it
right to suppose that that man will have
as grand and glorious a seat in heaven
as the man who gave all his energies of
of body, mind and soul to the service of
God? The dying thief entered heaven,
r>nt. tint with Th? r?ttia ctart liner
as that which greeted Paul, who had
gcae under scorchings, and across dungeons
and through maltreatments into
the kingdom of glory. One star differs
from another in glory, and they who
toil mightily for Christ on cartn shall
have a far greater rewsrd than those
who rendered only half a service.
"Some of you are hastening on toward
the reward of the righteous. I
want to cheer you up at the thought
that there will be some kind of a reward
waiting for you. There are Christian
people in this house who are very near
heaven. This week some of you may
pass into the light of the unsetting sun.
I saw a blind man going along the road
with his staff, and he kept pounding the
earth and then stamping his foot. I
said to him: 'What do you do that for?'
Oh,' he said, 'I can tell by the sound of
the ground when I am near a dwelling,'
And some of you can tell by the sound
of your earthly pathway that you are
coming near your father's house. I congratulate
you. Oh, weather-beaten voyagers,
the storms are driving you into
the harbor.
"Just as when you were looking for a
friend, you came up to the gate of his
house, and you were talking with the
servant, when your friend hoisted the
window and shouted, 'Come in, come
in!' Just so, when you come to the
gate of the future world and you are
talking with Death, the black porter at
the gate, methinks Christ will hoist the
W1UUUW OJUU D??J VUJJiO 4X1) WiUO m. JL
will make thee ruler over ten cities.' In
anticipation of that, and I do not wonder
that Augustus Toplady, the author of
Rock of Ages,' declared in his last moment:
*1 have nothing more to pray for;
God has given me everything. Surely
no man oan live on earth after the glories
I have "witnessed.' Oh, my brothers and
sisters, how sweet it will be, after the
long wilderness march, to get home.
That was a bright moment for the tired
dove in the tima of the deluge when it
found its way safely into the window of
the ark."
A MILLION DOLLAR MANTLE.
The Bed and Yellow Royal Cloak of tin
Kamehameha Dynasty.
"I don't care; I wouldn't wear it."
'But see what it cost. You don't
mean to say you "vouldn't wear a cloak
.that cost a million dollars!" said th?
stout man in a satirical tone that indicated
that the woman he addressed was
his wife.
The pair had stopped before the royal
feather cloak from the Sandwich Islands
that is spread out fan shaped in a casa
in the National museum. This cloak it
computed to have cost in labor $1,000,000.
The native name for it is mams.
In the days when a Hawaiian beau or
belle wanted little clothing, but wanted
that gorgeously colored, this cloak or
mantle would have been considered of
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more vaiue, sestneucauy anu mtrinsn;.uiy,
than a ship load of Worth costumes, arid
its happy possessor might truly be said to
be in high feather. Since the natives
have adopted wide trousers, lawn tennis
shirt3 and four-in-hand ties, ita
value lie3 chiefly in the traditions
that surround it. The mantle, which
is semi-circular, is four feet long
or deep, and it is 11 1-2 feet wide at the
bottom and 28 inches at the top where
it goes around the neck. The entire outer
. surface is made of feathera of fine texture,
giving the whole the appearance of
plush. The prevailing colors are red and
yellow or orange. The body is decorated
with large figures, crescent shaped, of
either red or yellow feathers. The upper
and lateral borders are corded and decorated
with alternate tufts of red, black
and yellow feathers.
A legend on a label states that this
feather cloak formerly belonged to Ke.huarkaiani,
one of the highest chiefs of
the Sandwich Islands. After the abolition
of idolatry in 1819 that chief rebelled
against the reigning king and attempted
to re-establish the ancient religions.
A sanguinary battle was fought,
and Kehuarkalani was slain, and this
cloak, which he then had on. fell into
the hands of the conquerors and thus
became the property of King Kamehameha,
by whom it was presented to Capt.
J. H. Aulick, U. S. N., in 1841. The
cloak is now the property of Capt. Aulick's
grandson, Richmond Ogston Aulick,
who deposited it in the National
museum. The great value of the cloak
is due to the long time required to secure
the feathers that compose it and to manufacture
the cloak.
The foundation is a net work of olona,
or native hemp, and to it are attached by
fine thread of the same material the
feathers of birds found only in the Hawaiian
Islands, and very rare there. Recent
writers have declared that the bird
is now extinct. The feathers are woven
in so as to lap each other and lie flat,
forming a smooth, plush like surface.
The inner surface is without lining
and shows the olona net work and
the quill ends of the feathers. The cord
of the upper margin is prolonged so as to
serve as a fastening at the throat. The
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yeuow learners are outaineu irurn uio uo
or TTho, and, as stated, are of great value,
as the bird is rare, very shy and difficult
to capture, and it lias but a very small
tuft of these feathers upon each shoulder.
The black feathers are from the
head and back of the same bird?its general
plumage being a glossy black. Tha
Oo is caught alive by means of bird lime;
the yellow feathers are then plucked and
the bird released. The red feathers are
from the body and neck of the Drepanih
Coccinea, the most abundant bird of the
Sandwich Islands.
The Hawaiian Spectator, a newspaper
published in 1630. refers to this, or a
m'milftr mantle, a- foJ'ows: . "Kawkeauli
has the mams, u leather war cloak of
fcia fnfhpr TA-M^hfl-Afpha. Tt wa? r>ot
completed until his reign, having occupied
eight preceding ones in its fabrication.
A piece of nankeen, valued at
$1.60, was formerly the prioe of five of
the yellow feathers. By this estimate
the value of the cloak would equal that
of the purest diamonds in several of the
European regalia, and, including the
price of the feathers, not less than a
million dollars' worth of labor was expended
upon it at the present rate of
oomputing wages."
A bunch of the yellow feathers called
hulu was received by the king from his
subjects in payment of a poll tax, and it
required many years to collect the material
and manufacture one of these mantles.
Until recent years these mantles
were the royal robes of state and considered
the principal treasures of the crown;
but European clothing has entirely superseded
them and they aro not now
manufactured. A beautiful headdress
for women, called leis, was made of
these feathers.
Another authority states that two yellow
feather? only are obtained from each
Oo, and these are found under the wings.
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wnen uie mucn prazea iearners are
plucked the bird is set at liberty. The
price of the feathers, according to this
authority, was $1.50 for three, and the
time occupied in making the cloak was
estimated from fifty to one hundred
years.?Washington Star.
PIANOS Ai\l> ORGANS.
One thousand Pianos and Organs to
close out by October 1. All Organs and
Pianos sold at cash price, payable
November 1?no interest?delivered to
your nearest depot. Fifteen days trial.
Organs from $24 up; Pianos from ?150
up. All instruments warranted. Send
for circulars. Buy now and have the
use of the instrument. Remember we
pay freight both ways if the instrument
don't suit. Prices guaranteed less than
New York.
N. W. TRUMP,
* Columbia, S. C.
The French National Legislature are
called upon to consider a proposition mak
ing it a duty of the citizen to vote. If a
citizen neglect that duty his name will be
erased from the electoral list for two years;
and if he thereafter continue in his neglect
his name will disappear forever from the
list.
LKE AND STONEWALL JACKSON. i
An English Soldier's Estimate of their
Soldierly Oualitie?.
(Lord Wolseley, in the Fortnightly Review.)
The Confederate commander-in-chief,
Gen. J. E. Johnston, was so badly
wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks that
he was obliged to rea'gn his command
WrtnfVio-m armiAs Two after
Gen. Robert Lee was appointed to command
the Army of Northern Virginia,
upon whose fighting power the whole
Southern Confederacy then depended.
Gen. McClellan's army of over ninetytwo
thousand men was on the Chickahominy
River within a few miles of
Richmond, the seat of the Confederate
Government. Gen. McDowell's corps
of about forty thousand. men, retained
at Fredericksburg by President Lincoln
for the protection of Washington, against
all the principles of military science,
was at last ordered to join McClellan's
army. To prevent this junction, by
again ak raring Mr. Lie coin and his
civilian military advisers for the safety
of the Union Capital, was Lee's first
object. This he could only do by the
action of the force beyond the Blue
Mountains, under the command of that
most brilliant of leaders and of tacticians,
Gen. Stonewall Jackson. That hardfighting,
clear-headed soldier of the
Puritan stamp was then in the Shenandoah
valley, near the village of Port
Republic. Lee's army round Richmond
was much inferior in strength to that of
the army of the Potomac, directly under
McClellan, without counting McDowell's
corps as part of it. The Confederate
commander had thus the difficult task
before him of making Mr. Lincoln believe
that Stonewall Jackson was about
to move on Washington, while at the
same time he drew that general with all
possible rapidity and secrecy to join him
near Richmond. It was designed that
while making a flourish of trumpets in
the Shenandoah valley, and threatening
a move toward Washington, along the
Orange and Alexandria Railroad, the
Confederate army, covered by a screen
cavalry on its left flank, should make a
most rapid march behind it, and fall
upon McClellan's right flank and rear,
near Mechanicsville, on the Chickahominy
River.
The splended execution of this bold
and well-planned movement does undying
credit to Stonewall Jackson. His
division was invincible because the
leader, while thoroughly understanding
the science of his profession, was further
endowed with the power of carrying out
the most difficult plans, the most farreaching"strategical
conceptions of his
great commander. Stonewall Jackson's
troops were unconquerable because they
had unbounded confidence in their Godfearing
leader, who in his tarn trusted
them most fully, and believed they could
accomplish anything. Never was there
in anv armv. or portion of an army, a
more complete union of spirit and of
mutual confidence than existed between
Stonewall Jackson and all under his
command. As I looked into his curiously
blue eyes, and watched the movements
of his calm, frank and charming face as
the sentenoes came slowly out of th<*>
firmly set and determined mouth, I felt
and understood the influence he exercised
over his soldiers.
I shall not attempt in this short article
to describe how this splendidly conceived
project was as spendidiy executed. How
McUiellan's right was rolled up, and
how the Southern troops cut his line of
communication and tuppiy with the
White House on the Pamunky Biver; how
the armv of the Potomac, driven from po
sition to position, had to retreat, and after
great losses in men, guns, materials of
all sorts, and, above all tilings, in reputation,
had to seek refuge at Harrison's
Landing, on the Lower James Elver?
these things are known to all men.
Richmond, the Confederate Capital, was
saved, and the Northern army, recalled
from its vicinity, had soon to f'ght on
Upper Potomac for the safety of Washington.
Lee's strategy in this year, when he
fought in defence of the Southern Capital,
and threatened and strnck at that of
the United States, marks him as one of
the greatest captains of this or of any
other age. No man has ever fought an
up-hill and losing game with greater
firmness, or ever displayed a higher
order of true military genius than he
did when in command of tue Confederate
armv.
The knowledge of his profession displayed
by Gen. McClclian was considerable,
and his strategic conceptions were
admirable, bnt he lacked one attribute
of a general, without which no man can
ever succeed in war?he was never abie
to estimate with any accuracy the numbors
opposed to him. Before ho embarked
on this disastrous campaign he
believed the Confederate army at Centreville,
(80,000 strong,) which then
threatened Washington, wa3 about eqaal
to his own of 150,000 men. It was the
aarrifl with him all the wav throueh his
military career. He thoroughly enjoyed,
and 6ven in reverse never lo3t, the confidence
of his soldiers. The civilian
strategists at Washington dismissed him
from his command after his disastrous
campaign in the Peninsula, to the results
of which their ignorance and folly had
largely contributed. But when, some
months afterward, everything looked
very black indeed at Y/ashington, and
the Northern armies had been driven
back there helter skelter, it was to him
they had to turn to save them. No
other general in the Northern army
could, I think, have got it together in
the short time he did to fight at Antietam
in defence of Washington. That battle
alone saved the Northern Capital; if lost,
Lee could have dated his dispatch from
thence to announce the triumph of the
Southern aims. Lee, then, possessed
priceless qualities which were lacking
to McClellan. It was the presence in
him of intuitive genius for war which
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gave him victory, even when he was
altogether outmatched in numbers.
Dangerous Stock Food.
Some residents of the neighborhood
where deer, thought to have been killed by
the black tongue, were found sometime
since, give it as their opinion that the
deaths were caused by their feeding upon
frost-bitten pea vines. Only in the locali
ties where the deer had access to such pasturage
were any found dead and post mortems
of those discovered revealed the fact
that they had eaten of the frost bitten vines.
If this be the cause of the deaths it would
be well for the farmers to look to the graz
ing of their stock. A horse or a cow is as
"" ily Iriliusl hv cnrli fonri as a rlwr ?n<] 1)V
little ihoughlfulness and care a serious loss
may be evoided.?Marion Index.
A Chicago cbemiet has analyzed cigarettes
of various brands, and finds that they
were generally made of tobacco "imper
fectly fermented," which means that an
unusually large amount of nicotine was
present in them, and that they were impregnated
with dirt in varying proportions.
More strength and power lies in a sinfle
dose of B. B. B. (Botanic Blood
>alm) than in a hundred doses of sarsapariila
extract, and other so-called blood
remedies. Read of its miraculous cures
I in other parts of our paper.
TBK PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
A Vigorous Document ExpecUd?Tarlfl
Keform Ideas to be Reiterated.
(Special to the Baltimore Sun.)
Washington, November 23.?Speculations
that Mr. Cleveland will in his las L
annual message to Congress reiterate nis
tariff reform ideas, are quite safe. Mr.
Cleveland is not the man to abandon
any principle which he believes to be
just and well founded because of temporary
obstacles. It can be assumed
confidently, therefore, that he will take
back nothing he said in his message of
December last. Bat unlike that paper,
the forthcoming message will trcit of
several other important topics in addition.
It will be his aim to transmit to
Congress as the last of his annual communicatKra*
the best document that has
ever emabjted from his pen. Those who
| have wafcCcd his career and have followed
the tenor of his state papers know
that one of his peculiarities is ever to
depart from the beaten track and to
throw out suggestions that will set
others to talking and thinking. This
has been the case with the large majority
of his communications to Congress,
even thote on comparatively inconsequential
matters. \Yfcat he has
said and done during his whole term
has been the cause of more comment in
the public press and on the floor oi
Congress than the utterances of any
man who has sat in the White Hoiuie
daring this generation, It is the beiiel
that in his message, after giving what
ever prominence Ue may consider due
to the subject of tariff reform, he will,
among other things, outline some bold
and comprehensive ideas in reference to
our foreign affairs, and the extension ol
our commercial and in some decrree our
political influence over the whole American
continent, North and Soath. The
message will be no note of the djing
man, bat the ringing declarations of a
self-reliant, undismayed, broad-minded
man, with the utmost confidence in himself
and in the future of his country.
The President, now that he has had
time to calmly survey the political field,
feels every reason to be encouraged, and
to anticipate that his retirement from
the White House will not necessarily
mean retirement from interest or participation
in public affairs. He has not
attempted in the least to conceal his
great disappointment at the result of
the election, for it is q<iite true that he
felt not only certain u: New York and '
Indiana, but had the stro: gest hopes of '
other States in the Nortnwest. Since ;
the election he has Laii assurances from 1
active and leading Democrats of the
Nortiaweat that the recent election returns
famish no reason for despair, but .
that there is every cvnience to convince ,
one of the tendency to growth of Democratic
principles and of "the prospect of J
Democratic ascendancy in the not rt mote ,
tutare in a conaaeraoie portion 01 mat .
section. It is jnst aa weii to say on that !
point that many leading Democrats of
the East did not in the last campaign i
share the enthusiasm of their Western ,
brothers as to party prospects in that .
section, and their enthusiasm has not .
l>een ttimulated since. However, as to <
this the future can only determine. But (
now the President, not cast down by 1
his disappointment but ready to pick his .
flint and try it again, is for the present J
actuated only by the ambition to go out
of cfiiae with the verdict of his country- ;
men that he has given them an honest,
upright, prudent administration of pub- J
he affairs. His purpose is to hand over .
to his successor the great trust which he ,
has held for four years without stain, (
and with no harassing or embarrassing (
legacies of his creation. With reference (
to his message, it may also be added, as
a possibility, that he may make some
allasions of importance with reference '
to Cuba.
Bill Arp About Farming.
Fanning is the nicest thing in the
world as long as it is done right, but
the trouble seems to be in the men who
do i 5. For instance, when a man fails at
everything else he goes to farming for a
hvicg. He is still a failure. 1 don't care
how rich the land is, it can't sprout
brains in the man's head who cultivates
it. Not much. When God fails to give
a man good sense it is useless for him to
try to gruw wise by farming, if you
can't make a fortune farming, you can
cosily gather in a good time and a fat
living if you will only act wliely. All
yon have to do is to plant on time and
work it correctly, and your crop will be
making you a living of nights and atodd
times, while you are asleep or are talking
politico. But be careful how you dabble
in political squabbles. Crops don't do
well when their owners talk Democracy
too much. Bear that in mind. I knew
several men who have talked themselves
out of a good crop many a time. Crops
are very sensitive kinds of creatures
You must visit them in the friendliest ]
manner once a week, or eise they will
get mad and fail to m ike an} thing much.
Crops are very cowardly, acd I never
saw one do much when a mortgage, was
drawn on it. It makes it weak and sickly,
and the grass nearly always takes it
sooner or larter. These mortgages have
a wonderful effect. I hava known them
to make honest men run their cotton off
by the sackful and sell it. Don't mortgage
your crops, or you may have to go
to j lil on account of it. Be cireful how
you monkey with a mortgage. It is a
deadly weapon and it has killed its
hundreds and thousands. It puts a
prison house around you, 1:0 matter
where you go. Better wear a ragged
suit and be free, than to dress fine and
feel like a thief and 3 rascal.
Iron in Orangeburg.
The St. Matthews correspondent of the
Charleston Worid says: "There has
been discovered on fhe estate of the late
Lawrence 51. Keitt, which lies about four
miles soul beast of St. Matthew's, Urge
quantities of marl and phosphate rock, of
which several specimens have teen sent to
the jjg'ieubural department at Columbia
t 1 c ?;! :,r.zad. Uu thisesJyte of nearly
z,ovv> av.co a found alsoirun in large quantities,
which Professor Shepard, State i
chemist, pronounced, on analysis, to be 87 \
per cent, pure oxide of iron, with no trace
ot prospnorus. me ncn ciay 01 me sou
is so impregnated with iron that bricks
made from it have the polish and solidity j
of that metal. The value of these iron ]
lands of the Congaree is little known. The j
agent of the Smithsonian Institute, sent t-> ,
inspect the soils for planting purposes, pro
nounced them unsurpassed by any in the 1
South, for unlike other rich soils the '
climate was entirel.v healthful. It i* to lolloped
that the time is near at hand when
these fine lands will be appreciated."
Crashed Between Two Cart.
Braschville, OrangeburglCo., Nov.
23.?A sad accident occurred at^St. Georges
on Wednesday. Little Willie Sease, the
11-year old son of the railroad agent at that
point, had his hand crushed between the
bumpers of two freight cars. The physicians
think that amputation will be necessary
to save the little fellow's life.?Special
to News and Courier.
The Mother's Friend, used a lew weeks
before confinement, lessens me pain ana >
makes labor quick and comparatively}
i easy. Sold by all druggists. I
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HARRISON AND THE SOUTH.
GUESSES AT THE NEXT PRESIDENT'S
POLICY.
A Belief that he Will Kecognire the Liberal
and Progressive Men in his Appoint*
menu.
(From the New York Times.)
Indianapolis, November 22.?The
eager discussion by the Southern newspapers
oi what they call Gen. Harrison'*
^ 3
ooutnern policy is giving an uuaue relative
importance to that subject all over
the country. This importance ia magnified
here by the importunity with
which Gen. Harrison ia assailed, by
letter and personal interview, to frame,
define and declare a line of coLdnct
which shall relieve the apprehensions
with'which the Southern people look
forward to his administration of the
Government. His mail is burdened with
ietters of advice, appeal, depreoation
and proteet, and his daily callers include
a larsjo St/u.i>?rn contingent, which
corn's on the name errand?to implore
him not to di^urb too violently the
social status liuaiiy established in the
S'juth and coi fi.-m~d under the last Administration;
to reorganize the dominant
classes in his appointments to office;
not to subject the Southern people
ag.iin to wh.tt they Ciil negro and carpel-bag
rule, lo: to encourage any form
of Federal interference in the local suairs
of Southern States. Under these cir
camstaLces it is impossible that the
Southern qaeotioa bhould not fill a
large apace in local discuesion of the
policy of the new Administration, however
reticent the President-elect and his
intimates may desire to remain upon it.
Those who undertake to speak for Gen.
Harrison deprecate the assumption that
he will have a Southern policy as distinct
from his national policy of administration,
declare that he will treat all sections
alike and apply the same general
principles of government to the South
as to the North. It is pretty well understood,
however, that the. President-elect
has been coerced by the importunity of
visitors and correspondents to give more
consideration to this subject than to any
other connected with his administration,
and that he has arrived at quite definite
conclusions as to his general coarse.
APPOINTMENTS IN THE SOUTH
iV.?MAUA?A^ Av\iv\inft?\Aftla f A
lii UiC UldlibCl ui a^jA/miuiuuu; iv vxuw
in the South, Gen. Harrison will probably
look for guidance to the experience
of his Republican predecessors in office,
all of whom had to deal with the some
problem of finding fit representatives of
the Federal power and dignity and competent
executors of the Federal law
law outside of the ranks of the most intelligent,
richest, most influential, and
socially dominant classes. Gen. Harrison
will not imitate Gen. Grant by seducing
prominent Ex-Confederates from their
Democratic fealty by appointments to
office; nor Hayes by attempting to raise
bhe ghost of the old Whig party. The element
he will seek to recognize and foster
in the South is that made up of the
yonnger, more progressive, liberal,
enterprising men of both parties, who
have risen to prominence since the war
and free from the narrow prejudices and
radscal bitterness it engendered; who
are identified with the material growth
of the country and interested in its industrial
development. So far as the party
question is concerned, it is believed to
be Gen. Harrison's judgment that
President Arthur dealt with the problem
oi appointments to office in the South
rr\r\na oanoninnolff ond Cn^WMinfnl V f.hftri
LUU1 OUgUViV UViJ j
any other Republican President. Arthur,
in his theory at least, made fitness the
first and ibpablicanismn the second
qualification to office in the South. He
appointed good Republicans wherever
tie could find them, and good Dtmoirats
where he couldn't. The conditions
rf the problem now existing make it a
great deal simpler for Gen. Hariison
than it was for Mr. Arthur. The Demoirats
are now in office, and the civil
3erv:ce law, which it is believed he means
Eaithfullv to obey in letter and spirit, is
in full force. When Arthur had to fly
in the face of party tradition by appointing
Democrats to office in places where
mitable Republicans could not be found,
Harrison will only have to obey a law
placed upon the statute books by his
5wn party by leaving Democrats in
?ffice.
NO REVIVAL OF JTEGBO RULE.
It is thought that the policy of the
President-ekct will be about as indijated
above; that he will make his Administration
in the South as thoroughly
Republican as is consistent with effieien>y
and obedience to law, but that he
?nll neither bo precipitate nor violently
partisan in his appointments; that there
will be few removals, except for cause,
ind that when vacancies occur they will
a? filled with Republicans, where fit and
competent Republicans can be found,
out otherwise by reappointments. The
personal character of the men upon
>vhom Gen. Harrison will most rely to
represent and sustain his Administration
in the South has been hinted at. There
will be no revival of negro or carpet-bag
rule. It is believed that few negroes
will be appointed to local office;
that tha test of fitness and acceptability
will be applied as rigidly to one
racj as to the othc-r. Few of the political
Darpet-bsggers of the old school are left
in the South. The emigrants who have
followed them?the capitalist*, maun
[ac'urers, miners, unsiuesa men, wuu
hsve identified themselves with the
country, its progress ami prosperity?
3tand in the mos>t direct line of favor
md recognition from the new Administration.
They and those of the youDger
:lass of native Southerners wuo havt
:anght their spirit acd absre tLe.r benti
merits and aspirations, iho men of the
new JSouth as a whole, native and imported,
will be the hope and reliance
Df Gen. Harrison's Administration.
LiaiSLATION TOUCHING THE SOUTH.
There is less definiteness in the local
forecast of Gen. Harrison's policy in relation
to Republican legislation affecting
the South, but it is not believed that it
will be violent or aggressive. His
speeches upon this subject have been
carefully scanned without finding in
their judicious eneralizations any warrant
for the . pectation that he will
favor or urge upon Congress what is
called a vigorous Southern policy. He
is known to feel strongly upon the inequality
of actual representation in the
Electoral College and House of Repre
sentativea growing out of the suppression
of suffrage in the South, and upon
the practical nullification of the Federal
laws for the collection of revenue in
many Southern communities; but he is
understood to believe that the permanent
and effective remedy for those evils
lies in the gradual growth of a more
wholesome popular sentiment, inspiring
a greater respect for pablic law and
private rights, rather than in the attempt
to enforce distasteful Federal laws in the
E
face of hostile Courts, juries and public
opinion. It is known that Gen. Harrison
will rely very hopefully upon the
development of the industrial spirit in
the South to foster and diffuse this more
wholesome public sentiment; that he
has faith in the power of the increased
mental energy and greater personal independence
that characterize industrial
society to put an end to the evils growing
out of the subjection of an ignorant
majority to the arrogant minority in a
primitively organized agricultural community.
Accordingly, it is believed that
the industrial development of the South
will receive all possible encooragement
and aid from his Administration, both
in executive acts and through his influence
upon legislation.
firmbtirn Without Heat.
Ironworkers^?||(^pflcBi? Asdr,others
see constantly 'ekpbsed to a heat of 400
or 500 degs. F., and yet do not become
burned, and there can be little donbt that
tho enormous radiation from heated rocks
and valleys. In addition to the direct rays
of the sun, make up an amount of heat
far greater than is ever experienced on
oven a very sunny snow slope, and yet
on3 does not become sunburned. No donbt
the surface of the snow reflects and dis
bnrses much heat, but certainly far less
than it receives, as heat rays are absorbed
and rendered latent by the snow melting
and evaporation. Experience fully corroborates
this,'for one may lie on one's
back and freely expose the face for long
periods to the sun and yet remains un
burned. There must, therefore, be some
one factor in sunburn than heat alone.
In discussing the subject with Professor
Tyndall he added the very interesting and
significant fact that he was never more
burnod on snow than while experimenting
with the electric light at the North
roreumu ii^utnouse, wueru iuer<? w*u? iiv
heat sulflcieut to produce such an effect
I am a-.vore that sometimes, in peculiar
conditions of the atmosphere, the direct
stui's rays will burn. I have met with
some singular instances where several
persons have been burned on the same
day, even in England, who had never pre
viously suffered in that way. I am fur
ther aware that sometimes, not always,
in a dead calm on a ship's deck, one may
be severely sunburned, and that in boating
the same may occasionally happen.
Masks and veils have long been used as
a protection on snow, and are more or less i
successful, brown veils and glasses in my (
experience being the most efficient. As i
bearing up this I may mention that a i
friend of mine, after an ascent on snow. |
had an enormously swollen face, and I ob
servcu iuai m me geuerju. sncuiug ujuc 1
were rcanv pits and depressions, and that
each pit corresponded to a freckle. The
irritating rays had been intercepted by
the brown color of the freckle.?Nature. !
i
Two Sides of the Question.
One thousand one hundred and eighty '
one young women and girls attended the
free day and evening clasps connected
with the Young Women's Christian as .
sociation last year. There are free classes i
in stenography, type writing, bookkeep .
ing. commercial arithmetic, business
training, drawing, modeling and design
in^. retouching photo negatives, physical ,
culture, choir music and dressmaking
Said a lady interested in the association
to the writer: "Surely the women and
girls of New York ought to embrace these
advantages and make the most of them."
One bright looking young woman, ,
though perhaps not patient and persev
ering enough, looked rather dubiously at '
the "speaker as sho remarked: "But the
market seems overstocked now with :
stenographers, typewriters, bookkeepers; '
i:i fact every department of woman's i
work seems crowded to overflowing. At !
tho Cooper Union Free School of Tele '
graphy tney will not take pupils, unless (
some prominent man, or some person with 1
a good standing in the community, comes '
forward and guarantees them positions." '
"Mark Twain," said the lady, "with
his characteristic force, on the other 1
hand, expresses himself as follows: 'All '
trades and occupations are cramped and 1
hindered for want of people to do the (
- ?s\? TT-ff\ Whftn v
UVb IVi VTtUib V4 n via ?.v v*v. ? "v u
people tell you the reverse they speak 1
that which is not true. If you desire to '
test this you need only hunt up a first <
class editor, reporter, business manager,
foreman of a shop, mechanic or artist ir <
any branch of industry, and try to hir< <
him. You will find that he is already '
hired.' It is the same with women as it
is with men. The best, the most skillful, <
arc ol ways in demand."?New York Press.
<
Keeclier and His Word Pictures.
If I were reauired to sum up Eeecher,
as he seemed to me during the first '
twenty years of his experience in Brook 5
lyn, as I grew up beneath his eye 1
from little boyhood to man's estate. 1 "
T\r\+ /\r\?X in fltKTPr '
OiiUUlU uvv v**v wvv? ???.w .. w.
ing, heartiness. He was hearty in every- \
thing he did; his aye meant aye, and his
nay meant nay. He was peculiarly tenacious
about his expressions, as, for in
stance, one time he described a vision.
Standing, in apparent rapture, at the
very front of the platform, with his eyes
thrown far beyond the horizon, he spoke
of the goddess of Liberty with a diamond
scepter in her hand.
When he came home that night I said:
"I had to laugh when you spoke about
the goddess of Liberty with a diamond
scepter in her hand. Of course you
meant a diamond pointed scepter, there is
no such thing as a diamond scepter." He
was lying on a hair cloch sofa in mother's
back parlor, but rising quickly, and resting
himself on one elbow, with tremendous
emphasis, he replied:
"Nonsense! I guess I know what I
saw."
That of course led up to an interesting
discussion as to the illustrations, pic- <
torial, for which, his public utterances !
were noted. He lived in pictures, and '<
dnring the discussion he said: 1
"Why, certainly, I see them. Else how (
couid I describe them?" In other words. (
his imagination caught with nervous <
hand upon the tail of fancy, and drawing t
it to him, enabled him to describe, in words,
for the understanding of his hearers,
that which to him was-an apparent
reality.?Joe Howard in Once a "Week.
The Old World's Railroads. S
We are, as yet, only at tho edge of the 1
great projects of railway and other !
methods of intercommunication. The '
time will come when every remote hamlet (
will be centralized, and no land will be 1
out of easy reach to the tourist and to 5
commerce. The next great steps of pro- 1
gress are to be taken in Asia. Besides (
the roads projected and building in Siberia I
and China, there is now a 1,400 mil'* road 1
proposed from Constantinople to Bagdad i
This will open a new route to China '
shorter by ten days than that by the Suez >
Canal. Americans understand very well '
the rapid changes that follow the opening (
of such a line. Science says: "ft vrill '
create a new Asia Minor." Then again *
Bagdad will become one of the world's 1
rreat cities. Lovers of the Arabian J
Slights will associate considerable ro- '
mance with this latest project of com- |
xnerce.?Globe-Democrat.
At the convention of National Grange. I
Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, at
Topeka, Kansas, the announcement was
made that 193 granges had been organized
during the year.
It is well to lay up something against s ,
rainy day, but it is not well to lay up j
another man's umh-ella.
Where people sing off the key, it is probably
because they are afraid of touching ,
pitch. :
Most people need more encouragement
than rebuke. i
?
HARRISON AND THE SOUTH.
The White People of this Section Intend to
Control the Government.
(Montgomery Harvester.)
If Mr. Harrison is governed by patriotic
impulses, and not by partisan and sectional
ide 8, he will set his face resolutely
against the men who threaten reconstruction
of the South.
{* ugusta, Ga., Chronicle.)
The people of Georgia an i the people of
the South must stand together ia favor of
white supremacy and good government.
In this rests our only hope for the development
and civilization of the Southern
Slates.
(Savannah News.)
President Harrison can relieve the Sooth- _ em
people of a burden of apprehensions
by announcing in his inaugural adores* that
he will not pursue a policy calculated
to breed race troubles, and that he recognizes
that the race problem can be solved
more readily by the Southern people themselves,
and without omside interference.
(Macon News)
We bespeak for Southern men alive to
the interest of their section and its possibilities
a fair and manly receptiou of the
administration to be inaugurated by Gen.
Harrison.
(Macon, Telegraph.)
What the Republican policy towards the
South will be is, of course, very uncertain.
It is possible that it may be directed toward
dividing the while vote rather than
toward keeping the negro vote solid. The
latter policy, pursued tor twenty-five years
has deprived the party of all in power in
the South. The solid negro vote has been
a source of weakness instead of strength,
because it forced sll white men into opposition.
(Memphis Avalanche.)
What course is left open to the Democratic
party of the South? We must wait
*od see. If it is shown that the policy at
which we have hinted is to be pursued,
che n< cessity for strict organization with
fhp n^mA/?rnt? nf fha fi/\nfh Af
paramount importance. If for no other
reason tbau that of self-protection, it is in
i be highest degree important that they
should stand together to a man.
(Brunswick, Ga., News.)
The country has progressed too far from
the era of the civil war to tolerate the
jpeuing of old wounds. In spite of all
the efforts of demagogues the several sections
of the country have been drawn closer
together by business interests, and it is not
it all likely that these interests will permit
the South to suffer. jSB
(Jackson, Miss., Clai Ion-Ledger.)
In matters not who is ihe President of
:he United Slates, a large majority of the
people down this way, white and black,
aave got to work just the same for their
iaily bread.
(New Orleans Times-Democrat.)
If the newly elected President goes wrong
:he people will very soon put him straight
igain; if the Republican party attempts to'
play any fantastic tricks or disturb tbe
peace and prosperity of the South and tbe
country at large, it will be relegated by
;he people?its masters?to sudden and deserved
obscurity.
Counting the electoral Vote.
By the Act of February 3, 1887, the day
for the meeting of the Presidential Elect
>rs in the several States is changed from
.he first Wednesday of December to the
second Monday of January following their
ilection. Tne reason for ihis change was
:o give the States ample time for determinng
any dispuies that might arise concernog
the legality of the choice of its Elect>rs,
so that when the Electors meet there
nay be no doubt of their right to cast the
rote of the State for candidates for Presi
lent and Vice President.
Under the old law the Electors in each
5'ate were required to appoint a person to
ake charge of the certificate setting forth
;heir action and deliver it to the President
>f the Senate before the first Wednesday
>1 January. In the Act of 1887, requirng
the Electors to meet on the second
Monday in January, Congress failed to
Jiange the date of delivery to the Prefeilent
of the Senate, thus leaving the Elect>rs
in the anomalous position of being rejuireu
to deliver the certificate of their
inal action before that action was taken,
fhis inconsistency was discovered, how
;ver, uuu ruiucuicu uy a auyujeujciiwiijr
kct passed in the closing hours of the recent
session, which provides that the cer.ificaies
aud list of votes cast on the second
VIonday of January shall be forwarded to*
,he President of the Senate as soon as pos
sibie thereafter, and empowering the latter
jffieial, in case the certificate from any
atate fails to turn up by the fourth Moniay
in January, to send a special messenjer
to the District Judge, in whose custody
>ne ceititicateis required to be left, for his
*opy.
This is to insure certificates from c^ery
State by the time the two Houses of Congress
meet to count and declare the vote,
vhich is fixed by the fourth section of the
aw of lt&7 at 1 P. M. on the second Wedjesday
of February. The last three secions
of the law prescribe the rules of procedure
during the couot in the presence of
he two Houses and are aimed to compel a
conclusion of the count before the day fixed
>y law for the inauguration of the Presi- lent.
jp oriunaieiy, m ine nrsi couci 01 xae
ilectoral vote undtr the new law no serious
lispute or complication is likely to arise, as
General Harrison's majority of tbe electoral
?oie is so nronunced as to leave no grounds
>r excuse for a contest Tbe machinery of
he new law will therefore be put in ope ation
under favorable conditions and with)ul
friction. While il is not all that could
je desired in tbe matter of providing
urjiinst anv nossible future eomolication.
ike that arising in 1876, the law of 1887 is
iertainly an improvement on former laws
md rules governing the electoral count and
vill, in ail probability, be found adequate
o any necessities that may arise under it.
-Philadelphia Times.
Mad Dogn,
Mad drgs, like death, seem to have all
seasous for their own. The present fall
las been prolific in the number of cased
reported from various quarters. Our own
mmediate neighborhood has furnished its
juota, but fortunately no person, so far as
?e have heard, has yet been bitten, although
several have had narrow escapes, among
;hem Sir. A. C. Mobley and two of his
children. Mr. Mobley succeeded in dispatching
the rabid brute, but not until he
lad bitten two puppies and a cat. The
puppies were killed at once, but it was not
inown that the cat was bitten until last
Monday, nine days after the dog was
uiiea, wnen the animsi snoweu sympwius
)f hydrophobia, and the shotgun was
igain brought into requisition ana made to
io effectual work. The dog may have
sitten many other animals, as he was on
he rampage for two days before being
iilltd. It would therefore seem to be a
proper act of precaution for all persons
iiaving dogs to either kill them or keep
;hem chained for a season?the longer the
t>etter.?Edgefield Monitor.
Experience Teaches.
We suspect that by the 1st of April next
both Presiden Cleveland and his party will
stand higher in General Harrison's estimation
than they do now. Good Republicans
who found fault with them for not living
up to their professions about patronage,
did not know what it was to deal with
200,000 or 300,000 ravenous office-seekers,
and no Republican President since Lincoln
has had any experience of it.